things that used to be in waterford ya can remember

Ostrom

Sheffelins (and later 'scorpions....')

The Kings back when it hosted decent music

Favourite Home Brew on the quay (which may still be there?)

Crazy Prices with the hand-drawn signs

Wimpy (Now the brasserie)

Boston cleaners

A lane through City Square (early 90's)

jonnyfingers

-The Junction and Club L.A. where Mason's is now.
-Preachers and the Pulpit where Electric Avenue is now.
-WLR above Georges Court instead of out by Tesco.
-Nothing but fields behind Hillview where the Carrigpherish (sic) Road and new houses are now.
-Airmount hospital where a lot of us were born.

Elle Victorine

Lord I remember club LA!

Also remember that little shop on alphonses(sp?) road and the little post office across from st.john of god's

I remember where Hickeys was...was like another georges court type place.
There was a funderland type thing where pc world is now.
Strand video in town and the dunmoire road.
THe butchers where Apache Pizza is now.
THe greengrocers where La Boulangerie was.
Eddie rockets across the street.
Abrakebabra was up where pure is now.
When tesco polberry was actually quinnsworth
Bakers street weas actually a bakery
the green bank bakery...might have the name wrong there.
The bank bar and its previous run as an actual bank!



God there's some load of changes.

ANybody remember orange??THe secondhand clothes store? Was right next door to Giselles Shoes. It then became Marmalade Cafe.

OOO and the little sweet shop that's beside Geoff's Bar. It's boarded up onw but an old man used sell sweets from those oldschool plastic jars and weigh them out on weighing scales. Loved that shop

old gregg

following on from Martin Hunt and Waterford characters, here's one that only folks of a certain vintage will remember .....

STAB THE RASHER

deisemum

It's over 20 years since I first visited Waterford but I remember
The Chuck Wagon, think it was in the vicinity of Supermacs,
also the Peppermint Grove in the Bridge Hotel,
the Stone Court nightclub,
I've lost count of the numerous name changes of the nightclub at the Reginald.

Knox's is now Tommy Hilfiger

Also Ardkeen Quality Foodstores was a much smaller shop where Supermacs and Jigsaw are now located and the rest was a car park.

The first row of houses in Earls Court were just being built and then it was countryside out from that.

deisemum

My DH remembers Stab the Rasher and Hatchet Reilly.

Duiske

ziedth wrote: »

God, I remember burgerland. used to love it there as a boy.

Now theres a blast from the past

The Pineapple Grove bar in the Bridge hotel was a great hangout back in the day as well.

deisemum

He also remembers The Johnies from John's Park.

The Cove Centre used to be a petrol station and when my hubby was a teenager he had a part-time job there and he was held up at gun point by a robber. He still occasionally sees that man around the place.

tbaymusicman

does anyone remember a restaurant where subway is think it was called harvester was really nice across from th doolans and shaws

hotspur147

alfie hales sports where argos is now
crosslane video store
the chuck wagon
the mobile chinese van outside breens
askin the magee's to let 2 in for a fiver (also breens)
ballad session sun night in the peppermint grove
excaliber night club
bewleys cafe
algies barbers
the de la salle center
lunch in the old stand
the poker machines where the kasbar is now
the double seats in the regina cinema

gscully

Kahless wrote: »

When Arundle Square was a square. With Wimpy and Woolworths. I'm not imagining the latter, am I? My memory of it is a bit hazy, but I think there was one.

Woolworths was where Penneys is now. The place you're thinking of in Arundel Sq was called Wellworths - a glorified pound shop.

Also, in Arundel Sq, there was a good butchers (Warings??) and a camera and computer shop (Finns).

I remember the old Savoy (saw Brendan Grace there), then it became a gaming arcade, then became Supermacs. There was also a gaming arcade called Jackpot where the back of Muldoons is now.

honeybadger

bevans bookshop on the quay and jd sports aswell and if any one rembers where the old army shop and where the city arms pub and woolworths were before they built city square and also all the cattle boats on the quay and the big warehouse where the plaza is now built and all the old streets and river walk down the aldephi quay direction behind the tower hotel and when charlies furniture was down on parnell street and also how could i forget bernies video shop behind the kentucky

0neo8

Club LA.for the dj nights.fookers got rid of it.dont forget the famous monica that walked sally park.there was more people in her than in quinnsworth(i wasn't).no offence any of her relatives

seanybiker

wellbutty wrote: »

Remember the city bypass was to go up Crescent Drive green in Hillview?!

And well i remember that. Living in second last house on crescent drive. All me neighbours got in the paper for protesting. I was in bed at the time ha ha.

Coadys pond ruled.
Shaky island by red iron bridge.

Odats

The Coffee Shop where the Bistro is now on Patrick St, next to it Skippers.
Also the Broad St Centre and Bewleys inside.
Greasy Neds where Danny's is on Barrack St Half a chicken inside a snack box for a pound.
Doyles on Barrack St. Paddy Reas shop on Barrack St. Mackeys menswear on the Quay. Reddys where the strip club is on high st.
Kathleen the lolipop lady outside Mount Sion school. Besco. The Old Stand. Algies barber shop. Walsh's on Ballybricken. Leahys bakery on the Mayors Walk. Merlins before it was renamed Oxygen. Henry Molloys butchers on Patrick St. Tom Molloys butchers on Ballybricken were the Keogh practice is now. Denis Maguires shop on Ballybricken. The Bank of Ireland on Ballybricken. the Reginald Excaliber nightclub. KG Discs in the Shopping centre on Paddy Brownes Road. Sinnotts Discs. Frank English's on O'Connell St. JD Sports on the Quay.

m3llowship

I'm yet to find a battered sausage as good as the Beefy King where Abra is now.

lollypop41

the wimpy where the brassiere is now used to go their every friday for dinner with my family when i was small i lov ed it

the wooden part of the peoples park the monkey bars were class

the bowling alley where that computer shop is now had my birthday party there so many years in a row

marlin vs

Charlie Upton's down by the Colosseum, and then he moved to ballybricken.Batteburys pub,barrack st. the golden dollar,mayor's walk, John Keanes,barrack st.and the famous well on upper yella road.

KingLoser

B&B Cycles, beside the chipper on Ballybricken
Advance Tyres and a deadly secondhand shop on Wellington St
The Pound shop on red square, where I think Dr. Herb is now
Danny's shop on Barrack Street
Ned Kelly's where the Junction is now
There was a bakery next door to Ned Kellys, where the betting shop is now
Wrights cycles on Henrietta St.

Loads more, can't think.

Mossy Monk

Burgerland

LOL

kryogen

old gregg wrote: »

following on from Martin Hunt and Waterford characters, here's one that only folks of a certain vintage will remember .....

STAB THE RASHER

that particular........human.......is still around

shockwave

Ned Kellys pub where the exchange is now. As rough as the chicken ranch
The forum was a cinema called The Regal (I think that was the name)
The old rogue pub in the apple market.
The old guy who used to sell windmills outside darrers and moved to dunnes when it closed.
The dingy old shop opposite mt sion school where you could get a single fag for 10p. Used to be packed at break time.
The manky old arcade where The Kasbah is now.
The L&N supermarket where H Samual is now.
The taxi rank outside pennys.

kryogen

this is a really good thread OP, i dont have the best memory but when other posters are recounting their memories i remember some of the same things and its good for the old nostalgia

the old man with the windmills!

Professey Chin

Anyone got photos of all the old places you remember. Im having troublem picturing 95% of them

longshanks

cashel and miller
the bok upstairs in the roxy

wmpdd3

Yes I remember the harvester was actually quite modern for the time it was open about 1992.

The dunlop factory was at the back of arundel square as far as I was told my gran worked there in the 60s.

I'm not this old but I was brought up with stories of the Olympic ballroom and roller disco it as beside the CTI where Olympic court is now.

Bewleys in the broad street centre and Trinity house.

Remember queing on the stairs to see santa in Shaws.

The pink paint on the toilets in the Roxy.

Drinking behind the cattlesheds on the quay.

kryogen

I remember Neil (the Bok) very well, a legend on the waterford scene

i miss hearing Kipper play at candlelight sessions in phil grimes

Tony Sullivans shop in Lisduggan was always a great place to spend the pocket money getting ripped off but at least he did it with a smile

drinkin in the jim morrison as a teenager that haunted house in hillview

or the one where the witch lived lol

SUNGOD

Duiske wrote: »

The Pineapple Grove bar in the Bridge hotel was a great hangout back in the day as well.

think it was called the peppermint grove....or the pepp ..to its locals

following on from the martin hunt, casahel ,miller posts..... a legend who is still around is "how do"
called so because it doesnt matter what you say to him he always responds..."how do"

SUNGOD

muckel ryan drinking around the town

gscully

Tom's Hot Bread Shop in Lisduggan...aah the smell! Harneys bakery too.

The Infirmary and Airmount when they were hospitals.

Fat Sams - sigh...great times...

Boyces shop on Michael St

Gaywear on Michael St (now Kavanaghs I think)

Motor & Sport on Michael St (with a video store upstairs)